Bruce
Cervon's Dirty Deal
Originally
sold here in the UK by Ken Brooke. So you know this is a great trick.
One of my constant favorite over the years.
Five
cards are shown, four are of like value, the fifth different- a poker
hand. These cards are counted showing all blue backs. One card is placed
on the table face down. A red backed card is removed from the wallet
and placed on top, now all the cards change to red backs. one is placed
on the table next to the first and a multi-colored back is removed from
the wallet and placed on top of the packet. All of the cards change
to multi-colored backs. One is removed and placed next to the other
two on the table and a third patterned back card is removed from the
wallet and added to the packet, all of the cards change once again to
match this third patterned back. One of these cards is placed on the
table where four different colored backed cards are seen. Turning the
cards over that remain in his hand, the performer lays them out on the
table and each is a completely different color and design back altogether.
Each of the nine cards on the table have a different back.
Highly
recomended. (If you can track down a copy of Ken Brookes origianl routine
there are some nice extra touches well worth adding!) - M
Price:
£8
Painted
Packet -
Ton Onosaka
Ton
Onosaka's update version of the "Mexican Monte". Three cards
turn over, change places, multiply, change color and wind up with a
surprise. (Easy to handle the five cards supplied) Utilises the Ascanio
spread
Price: £10
Strange
Travelers
- David Blaine
This
is David Blaine's single favorite effect. The actual deal-closer David used for
most of his professional career. It helped him close the deal on his first Network
T.V. special: Street Magic.
You
show someone a batch of twenty cards... all different. You give her ten of the
cards to hold. You
now have her just think of one of the remaining ten cards. She never says a word.
No one except her knows what card she's thinking of. These ten cards are counted
again. Strangely... there are now only nine. The one card she'd been thinking
of has vanished! She's still only thinking of her card; it's never been named
out loud! She
counts the other ten cards she's been holding; ten cards you haven't touched since
the beginning. But now she has eleven cards! The strange traveler has arrived...
her thought-of card is now staring her in the face! Strange
Travelers is a streamlined version of a classic effect that was Nate Lepzig's
favorite over 75 years ago. Other variations have come and gone. David re-discovered
this hidden gem, and the rest is history. And
the really good news: Blaine's favorite effect is extremely easy to do. No
palming. No difficult moves. Just a simple elegant handling that just about anyone
can learn. Complete
with Paul Harris' revised gimmick and routines, which includes a version where
you start and finish with a normal deck. Price:
£16
Maxi
Twisto - Nick
Trost
This
is fast proving to be one the most popular quick packet tricks of the year, in
effect, the performer shows four Aces. The Ace of Spades, the master Ace, is openly
turned face down. Now, one by one, after the packet is twisted, the
other three Aces turn face down. Explaning that you cheat and used five cards,
when the cards are dealt face up, there are now five cards, a Royal Flush!
Price:
£8
4
Flush! - Nick Trost
Another
Classic effect from the ingenious Nick Trost
A Wild Card
effect with six cards! You show five blank-faced cards and one Four
of Spades. The Four is brushed against two of the blank cards and they
change to Fours! This is repeated with the other blank cards and at
the finish, all six cards have changed to the Four of Spadesa
Four Flush!
No double-faced
cards are used, yet spectators seem to see the face and back of every
card!
Price: £8
CD
Poker - Vernet
Magic
The
performer explains that he has a new computer program that allows him to win every
time in poker without even using a computer. The performer then shows a CD that
has ten face cards printed on one side, and card backs on the other. The performer
hands a spectator five paper clips and the CD explaining that the spectator will
pick out the performer's hand by clipping any five facedown cards and the remaining
cards will be the spectator's hand. The performer then asks the spectator to turn
the CD face up showing the five clipped cards to be the winning hand!!
Price:
£8 Ultra
Monte - Daryl Find
the lady...actually the Ace of Spades. No matter how slowly and fairly it is displayed
with the two red aces, the Ace of Spades repeatedly vanishes and reappears in
the most unlikely places! Specially printed on Bicycle cards by the U.S. Playing
Card Company.
Easy
to do and instantly reset. Truly amazing! Price:
£8 or £11 with instructional DVD Cardboard
Chameleons - Daryl
This was a feature
routine for which Daryl earned the Gold Medal at the World Congress of Magic (F.I.S.M.)
in Lausanne, Switzerland. The
patter and presentation included suggests that these are cardboard chameleons
and they can disguise themselves at will by absorbing their surroundings! Six
ungimmicked cards (Supllied) are used, you finish reset and everything can be
examined. This routine requires considerable practice, but once mastered it is
a real reputation maker! Supply
your own poker sized deck. Price:
£6
18+
(Cocktail Cards) - Chris Wardle
The
18+ in the title could represent the legal age at which you could drink at a bar,
and legitimately watch the routines in this outfit! Or it could be the number
of drink cards you get in this outfit, or the number of routines detailed for
you in this manuscript of routines. You take your pick! Magic 'at the bar', or
for a partying adult audience, gives you an excellent performing platform. You
have an audience with the time and inclination to watch, observation skills that
are not at their peak, and where a little entertainment goes a long way. You have
an audience that is ripe for the type of effects this outfit offers, - all revolving
around tipsy themes, with no exceptional skill or sleights.
Most
of the effects are completely self-working, just follow the instructions. Others
require a small amount of manipulation, well within the reach of the most modest
close up performer. These effects could just as easily be performed at a restaurant
table, at a hotel, garden party or private function - anywhere close-up magic
and drinks may combine! We supply you 18 "drink" cards, (in an attractive
wallet), and a 24 page book of routines to perform with these cards. There are
some 18 routines, plus variations. Pick up the cards, follow the instructions,
and we guarantee you some great entertainment at your next party, restaurant or
pub session! Price:
£8 U2
From
a packet of 12 cards the Magician deals 6 cards to the spectator and keeps 6 for
themself. Both the Spectator and the Magician place their cards behind their backs,
mix them up and remove one card. Keeping it face down so even they don't know
which card they have chosen, the Magician and spectator exchange cards and place
them face up within the packet of cards behind their backs. When the two packets
are brought forward and fanned out it is seen that both the face up "chosen"
cards are identical
The spectators start to believe that maybe all the cards
are the same!!! "Well, all of these other cards may be the same
"
you say "but
" You turn over all the other cards to reveal that
all the cards are all the same but a totally different card!
Price:
£3 Midori
- Phil Goldstein The
performer brings out a small object concealed in his hand. This is given to a
participant to hold in his or her left hand, without the person viewing it. The
performer then brings out a small packet of cards and explains that these are
not regular playing cards but will instead be used for predicting the future...and
their fortune. The
spectator is asked hold up a number of fingers, the cards are then turned over
to reveal pictures of a hand with each with a different colour and different number
of fingers extended. The performer deals through these explaining the significance
of each colour, and noting the colour that matches their choice. The colour of
the hand matches the colour of the chip that they are holding! You
are provided with a set of six specially printed cards, plus five differently
coloured chips corresponding to the card colors, and very detailed instructions
on how to present this mind-blower!
Price: £11
Procket
- Phil Goldstein This
is a great quick packet routine involving four picture cards. One shows a rocket
ship; it's dealt to the table. The others bear the numerals for a countdown, and
the cards are dealt as the performer calls out, "Three, two, one... blast
off!!" With this final exclamation, the initial card is turned up, and the
rocket is gone, replaced by an explosion denoting its magical departure! The best
part is that the rocket is then reproduced from the magician's pocket! comes
complete with special Bicycle cards and detailed instructions.
Price: £11
18+
(Cocktail Cards) - Chris Wardle
The
18+ in the title could represent the legal age at which you could drink
at a bar, and legitimately watch the routines in this outfit! Or it
could be the number of drink cards you get in this outfit, or the number
of routines detailed for you in this manuscript of routines. You take
your pick! Magic 'at the bar', or for a partying adult audience, gives
you an excellent performing platform. You have an audience with the
time and inclination to watch, observation skills that are not at their
peak, and where a little entertainment goes a long way. You have an
audience that is ripe for the type of effects this outfit offers, -
all revolving around tipsy themes, with no exceptional skill or sleights.
Most of the effects
are completely self-working, just follow the instructions. Others require
a small amount of manipulation, well within the reach of the most modest
close up performer. These effects could just as easily be performed
at a restaurant table, at a hotel, garden party or private function
- anywhere close-up magic and drinks may combine! We supply you 18 "drink"
cards, (in an attractive wallet), and a 24 page book of routines to
perform with these cards. There are some 18 routines, plus variations.
Pick up the cards, follow the instructions, and we guarantee you some
great entertainment at your next party, restaurant or pub session!
Price: £8
Ultimate
3 Card Monte
Michael Skinner
Michael
Skinner's vast working repertoire, larger perhaps than any other magician in history,
contained some of the most difficult sleight-of-hand tricks imaginable. Yet, one
of his pet tricks, a feature of his close-up act at the Golden Nugget Casino in
Las Vegas where he performed for two decades, is this self-working miraclethe
Ultimate 3 Card Monte. Dont
be fooled by the fact that it almost works by itself, though. Michael Skinner
fried audiences with this routine and after he released the secret, the Ultimate
3 Card Monte found itself into the working repertoires of professional close-up
magicians all over the world. And nowit can be yours! Everything
(except a bit of practice) is included in the package professionally illustrated
instructions, original patter, and the specially printed Bicycle-brand cards that
make this miracle possible. The
Ultimate 3 Card Monteits the stuff of legends.
Price:
£9 Nervous
Breakdown - Dominique Duvivier The
magician shows a small plastic wallet. He explains that one side of the wallet
are four kings, the other side is a prediction card. The spectator is asked to
choose any king. The kings and prediction card are removed and placed on the table.
With absolutely no sleight of hand, the kings are spread to show the reversed
king is the one chosen. Not only was it reversed, it was the only one with a red
back! The prediction card is turned over to reveal an ace of the same suit and
color. Furthermore, the other cards weren't kings at all, but aces! That's how
sure the magician was to guess the prediction!
Effect includes special Bicycle Brand Cards, plastic wallet, and instructions
for three routines!
Price:
£13 Any
one of the four suits is freely named by a spectator (no magician's choice, force,
leading, or linguistic deception of any kind). Upon removing four cards from a
wallet the card which matches the spectator's chosen suit is the only one face
down! What's more, the three face-up cards are Aces and the spectator's selection
is turned over to reveal it is a King!
Comes
complete with all the necessary, specially-printed Bicycle cards, wallet, and
detailed, fully-illustrated 12-page instruction booklet. Price:
£10
The
Chinese Queens
- Tonny Van Rhee
You
show the backs of four Chinese playing cards, saying that these are
the four Queens. A spectator freely names a Queen.
You
display the cards and one card has turned over, which you claim is the
choosen Queen. But it has Chinese characters printed on it.... Of course,
you say, they're Chinese cards!
Finally,
you turn over the cards to show that this is the only one with a 'translation'
on it's back...the correct Queen!
Unusual
props, a great story and a stunning finish!
Comes
with cards, wallet and DVD instructions
Price:
£15
Shinkansen
- Phil Goldstein
Once
in a while a card trick comes along that I really like... This is one of them...
Not only that it stunned my wife! Now that puts it in the miracle class!
An
extremely efficient, practical, easy and stunning approach to the classic "Cards
Across" plot for close-up or stage conditions. The effect: Four red-backed
cards are displayed; they're counted and held by a spectator. A set of blue-backed
cards is shown, and a second spectator simply thinks of any one. The packets are
held by the spectators, who stand far apart from each other. With the utmost fairness,
the mentally chosen card vanishes from the blue packet and appears in the red!
Includes detailed,
16-page booklet written by Phil Goldstein and fully-illustrated by Tony Dunn and
the seven specially-printed cards on Bicycle stock that make this effect possible.
Price: £12
N
F W! Gary Freed
If
you have to ask what the name stands for then you haven't seen it done
Four Jokers magically turn face down one at a time. When they are turned
face up, they have turned into the four Aces!!! ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING!
Yes you really do see the fronts and backs of each Ace and unmistakably
show only four cards at the end. Nothing to ditch or palm off. No complicated
slight of hand. Instant reset making prefect for table hopping
This
is undoubtedly the trick of the year and only.
Price:
£12
Vanishing
Point - David
Eldridge
David
Eldridges first release in nearly four years, and it is a killer!
This is one of the most commercial packet tricks ever devised. Here is
the effect: It is simple. A four of a kind is shown front and back. One
at a time the cards turn blank until all four cards are blank. Then instantly
and visually the cards reprint! This is commercial magic at its best.
No rough/smooth
No difficult sleights No packet switches No Flushtration
Count Easy to follow instructions Perfect for walk-around
and table hopping All in the hands. No table is needed Reset
time is less than one second Visual Only four cards are
used!
Price: £10
Alien
Autopsy - Jim
Pace & Steve Dobson
Four
different coloured alien faces appear and disappear one at a time between pictures
of earth and space. Then, with a wave of the hand, the four cards with the aliens
change to four "green immigration cards" - then they immediately and
magically change into the aliens again this time all four at once! For the finale,
all four cards are shown to have changed into photographs of the famous "alien
autopsy." Comes complete with full color laminated cards and detailed instructions.
Very nice, resets instantly, perfect for table hopping and very entertaining.
Price:
£10
Predict"DIE"ble
With the aid of
an "Invisible Die" a spectator chooses one of six cards. The magician
reveals his prediction, It does of course match ! This is incredibly clean. No
funny spelling business, they throw / choose, a number you count to that card.
Very, Very clean. Very simple. Resets instantly and perfect for table hopping
with an in the hands routine included. This one is a must so simple but it blows
them away every time.
Price: £6
The
Lightning Queen From
a fan of three jumbo cards the spectator tries to find the queen from amongst
two indifferent cards but is always wrong
. Eventually the Queen disappears
all together. Price:
£10 Simplex
Monte Everyone has
heard of the three card Monte or find the lady. This routine is very simple to
do, as it is virtually self-working. You show three cards, two Jokers and one
Queen. All the spectators have to do is find the Queen. They try and fail time
after time, even though the Queen is shown at various times during the routine.
Finally you tell them they should never gamble on the Queen because there is never
a Queen in the first place. On turning the cards over it is seen that the Queen
has now vanished. The front and backs of each card can be displayed freely after
the effect is over, a very strong effect and a really entertaining routine. Price:
£6 The
Scarlet Pimpernel.
Walt Maddison The
Scarlet Pimpernel is caught between two guards but magically changes places with
a third guard placed earlier at the prison gates. If you have seen the original
version this is vastly improved with many lovely subtle touches. Made in Bicycle
cards.
Price: £5
Colour
Change Monte While
demonstrating the "Three Card Monte" The Monte card reverses itself
and changes places with the other cards not once but several times. Then the backs
change colour one by one ! Great routine, easy to do with a big impact ! Resets
itself, perfect for table hopping. Based on Matt Corins Mondo Monte.
Price: £6
Color
Monte - Jim Temple
Probably
the best "Packet Trick" in the world, EVER !
Wow ! It had better be good after that
Following an entertaining
patter story about the "Three Card Monte", you show three cards
(Sorry that was rather obvious wasn't it). Two have a red diamond printed
on them and the third has a blue diamond on it. First you try to find
the 'blue' card but they've all turned red, next they all turn blue then
back to red again. Finally in desperation you turn over the cards on at
a time
One red, one blue, now if you can tell me what the last one
is
POW ! The punch finish that'll knock em dead. I'll not give it
away but it's a killer. Not self working but not difficult to learn. Made
in Bicycle Cards, with carry case. You WILL use this, today, tomorrow
and the rest of your life
Unreservedly recommended.
Price:
£7 Zoom A
playing card or business card is examined. You ask your audience to look for threads,
motors, etc. Nothing will be found by either layman or magician! Even those familiar
with The Floating Match can check for threads and find nothing! You then wave
your empty hand over the tabled card in a magical pass. The card eerily comes
to life and ZOOMS this way and that across the tabletop! It looks as if the card
is being pushed and prodded by spirit forces! ZOOM the card directly into the
spectator's waiting hands for further examination! This look so much like real
magic, you'll be absolutely thrilled each time you perform it! Immediately repeatable
and examinable before, during and after the performance! Spectators may grab your
hands or the card at any time! Completely self-contained gimmicked card. Nothing
to add or take away. No magnets and no blowing! Leave the gimmicked card with
your spectator and repeat the effect the next time you see him! Price:
£10 Gipsy's
Curse (Hungarian Guessing
game) Peter Kane Possibly
one of my favorite storyline card tricks. Peter Kane's Variation
of his own "Wild Card" card effect using old fashioned style cards and
a great story line about a "Gypsy's Curse". Seven ancient playing
cards are shown to be six black spot cards and one King of Diamonds. you tell
the story of a propietor of a game of chance at an old traveling fair who divides
the seven cards into two groups and asks the spectators to wager as to which group
contains the Diamond. An elderly Gypsy woman having wagered and lost, placed a
curse upon the man and his game. When next he attempts to operate his game it
is found that all the cards are winners! The cards are fanned to show all the
faces are Diamond Kings and all the backs are normal. Beautifully
clean finish. Will fool the knowledgeable ones. Now remade in slightly smaller
cards making them easier to handle and in a laminated style finish to last longer.
Not self working, requires a couple of easy slights But you'll have something
different and entertaining. HIghly recomended
Price:
£10
Twisted
Sisters
Two
packets of four face down cards are shown and counted, one with red backs
and one with blue backs. Two spectators are asked to chose a packet each
and THINK of two different queens (NO FORCE). The performer states without
touching the cards he will make the two thought of cards turn over in
their packets and then change places !!! Sure enough he spreads the two
packets and FACE UP one in each packet are the two thought of cards. He
removes them and turns them over, they really have changes places, for
the face up card in the blue packet has a red back and vice versa. The
performer then shows that inexplicably the spectators chose the only cards
that would work because when they are turned over all the other cards
are JOKERS ! No extra cards. No sleight of hand. (A 2nd routine enclosed
requires minimal sleights).
Acclaimed as the
best trick of its type. And so easy to do.
Price:
£10 Sidewalk
Shuffle Martin Lewis
(Redone) Based
upon Joe Riding's "Three Card Trick with Four Cards," Ken Brooke gave
Martin Lewis permission to release his version which differs in methodology and
offers improved handling. (Ken Brooke also sold this himself) Fred Kaps took it
and made it even more famous). So you know it has to be good ! Performed as an
expose of the famous Three Card Monte, the magician begins with three blank cards
and an ace. One of the blanks is placed on his table and the audience is asked
to follow the movements of the ace. This is repeated several times and each time,
the spectators are fooled when the ace vanishes from the cards in hand and is
revealed on the table top. For a knockout climax, just when the audience thinks
they've caught on and guesses the ace is on the table - it is shown to be a blank
card and the magician reveals he is now holding THREE ACES ! Specially-printed,
Jumbo Bicycle back cards for stand-up work complete with instructions. No difficult
sleights. One of my all time favorites! Now Martin has reroutined this to make
it even better! Price:
£15
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